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	'title' => 'My hearing is tomorrow.',
	'body' => <<<END
<section id="general">
	<h2>General news</h2>
	<p>
		Early this morning, I panicked.
		I recently read something about one of the courthouses being closed on Memorial Day Monday.
		At the time, I thought &quot;It&apos;s a good thing my hearing&apos;s on Tuesday!&quot;.
		Had the hearing&apos;s earliest available date been on a day the courthouse was closed, it&apos;d be scheduled a day late.
		This morning though, I realised the error in that thought process.
		The financial institutions would be closed that Monday!
		I wouldn&apos;t be able to get in on Tuesday to get my document notarised, as the credit union opens after my hearing starts and probably after it ends.
		I wouldn&apos;t be able to get it notarised the day before either because of the blasted holiday.
		Holidays have always been massively inconvenient for me, but this is ridiculous!
		I looked it up though. Memorial Day is <strong>*next*</strong> Monday, not today.
		Next Monday will be one of the off weeks when I can&apos;t do anything related to my name change anyway.
		Everything will be fine at tomorrow&apos;s hearing, then I&apos;ll bring a pie into work to celebrate.
	</p>
	<p>
		Doing some research, it looks like I&apos;m not supposed to get the Declaration re Proof of Posting Notice of Hearing notarised before coming into the courthouse.
		Rather, I&apos;m supposed to have the court clerk notarise it.
		I don&apos;t even need to head into the credit union today.
		At least, I hope that&apos;s the case, as it&apos;s what I think I&apos;m supposed to do.
		If I do this wrong, as I mentioned, it&apos;ll set me back at least fifteen days.
	</p>
	<p>
		I&apos;ve gotten my alarm set to wake me in the morning, and before work, I packed as much that I can remember that I&apos;ll need tomorrow.
		I nearly forgot to pack my $a[ID].
		Someone at the courthouse said I&apos;d need it, though I forget who.
		They said I&apos;d need to prove the person filing for a name change is actually the person whose name will ba changed by the court order.
		If indeed the court clerk can act as the notary, I&apos;ll need my $a[ID] to get the document notarised too.
		I wouldn&apos;t say I&apos;m a bundle of raw nerves or anything; on the contrary, I feel almost calm.
		However, I&apos;m also full of anticipation and I&apos;m slightly nervous that this won&apos;t go well.
		Last time, the line held me back too much.
		I was late to the ex parte proceeding.
		That turned out not to matter.
		However, my hearing won&apos;t be much later than the ex parte proceeding was, clock-time-wise.
		I&apos;ll have forty-five minutes from the time they start running people one-by-one through the metal detectors to make it through said metal detectors, make it through the line to the cashier, find the clerk (which I hope is the cashier), get my stuff notarised, and get to the courtroom.
		Were I alone, this task wouldn&apos;t be a problem at all.
		However, the long lines eat at my time badly.
		After I make it to the courtroom, hopefully on time, I&apos;ll have to talk the judge into granting my request.
		What if they won&apos;t change my name?
		Everything I&apos;ve read though indicates that the judge is required to grant my request unless they can find an actual reason to deny it.
		I&apos;m not trying to escape debt or hide.
		The name &quot;Alex Yst&quot; isn&apos;t exactly offensive either.
		&quot;Alex&quot; might not be a common legal name, but &quot;Alexander&quot; and &quot;Alexandria&quot; are, not to mention the existence of the name &quot;Alexis&quot;, all of which use &quot;Alex&quot; as a nickname.
		The name &quot;Alex&quot; isn&apos;t foreign or bizarre.
		I&apos;m not trying to impersonate anyone.
		As far as I know, there doesn&apos;t exist an Alex Yst, or even an Yst family.
		What does &quot;Yst&quot; even mean to anyone besides myself?
		Really, this hearing should be nothing more than a formality, not a roadblock.
	</p>
	<p>
		I&apos;m reminded of Murphy&apos;s Law: everything that can go wrong will.
		However, while the law holds true at all times, it&apos;s only in the technical sense.
		Everything is caused by that which came before.
		Our reality is one long chain of events and can only take one path.
		Everything that can go wrong will, but only because anything that can happen doesn&apos;t have an alternative.
		While everything that can go wrong will, everything that can go right also will.
		I&apos;ve done everything I can to make this go well.
		If it doesn&apos;t, I don&apos;t have the information needed to make it go well yet, will learn from the failure, and will try again.
		Either that, or I get hit by a bus or something.
		It wouldn&apos;t be lack of knowledge at that point (unless you count knowledge of the bus&apos; location), but it&apos;d keep me from making it to court that day and would prevent he day from being a success.
	</p>
	<p>
		At work, a customer came in saying they&apos;d been given the wrong pizza in the drive-through.
		I was working the front counter and would happily exchange their pizza for the one they wanted, as is the policy of our store, but they wanted to keep the wrong pizza <strong>*and*</strong> get the right one gratis.
		We can&apos;t actually allow that though.
		My best guess is that it&apos;s to prevent people from scamming us.
		They could order one pizza, claim it was wrong, and get two pizzas for the price of one.
		I went and got a manager for them, who explained as I had that we can make the exchange, but we can&apos;t give away gratis pizzas.
		They were pretty unhappy, but there wasn&apos;t anything we could do.
	</p>
	<p>
		I can be quick-witted and clever sometimes, but other times, I&apos;m slower than I wish I was.
		A child accidentally left fake money in our lobby: two one-dollar bills.
		I wasn&apos;t sure what to do with it, but a coworker quickly put it in the register as a prank.
		I wish I&apos;d done that.
		Then when the manager came to remove money from the register to put in the safe, my coworker said I&apos;d taken fake money and I claimed I didn&apos;t realise it was counterfeit.
		It was, like, a quarter of the size of real bills and was printed on white paper.
		That was fun.
	</p>
	<p>
		We had to send some people home early due to lack of business.
		If I wasn&apos;t working a register, I could&apos;ve been one of those people.
		Normally I don&apos;t like to head out early, as in means smaller paycheques, but I&apos;m going to need to be up early tomorrow morning.
		I could use the sleep.
	</p>
	<p>
		My <a href="/a/canary.txt">canary</a> still sings the tune of freedom and transparency.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="university">
	<h2>University life</h2>
	
	claims I haven&apos;t registered - says I have on my end
	gall to say use other document and paste
	
	<p>
		I program advisor wrote to me saying I still haven&apos;t registered for courses, and that I should get on that.
		I just checked though, and the website says I already registered for <span title="Programming 2">CS 1103</span> and <span title="Databases 1">CS 2203</span>.
		I wrote back explaining that, so hopefully we can get that cleared up real quickly.
	</p>
	<p>
		University of the People support wrote back suggesting that instead of them fixing the problem that causes their website to constantly lock up, I should compose my coursework in Microsoft Word, then copy and paste it into the university website.
		Ignoring the fact that I use LibreOffice and not Microsoft Office, I explained I do use Geany to compose any coursework large enough to warrant archival.
		However, I also made four points:
	</p>
	<ul>
		<li>
			An external document editor is overkill for short responses such as the feedback on peer-graded assignments
		</li>
		<li>
			The peer-grading form actively prevents students from pasting anything into the final text box; pasting isn&apos;t an option
		</li>
		<li>
			This is a major bug; bugs should be fixed, not worked around
		</li>
		<li>
			I can&apos;t be the only one being plagued by this bug
		</li>
	</ul>
	<p>
		I wrote up my discussion posts for the week:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I enjoyed your illustrations.
			I read the description of the single-room and room-within-main room houses, but I didn&apos;t see anything about the more-complex houses you described and depicted.
			I also hadn&apos;t read about latifundia villas.
			You have an excellent level of detail about the homes from the reading assignment too.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			Yeah, such cramped and poor living conditions do seem like a breeding ground for disease.
			The poor of Rome weren&apos;t very well off.
			It could&apos;ve been worse, but it also could&apos;ve been much better.
			These days, not having indoor plumbing (both for fresh water and waste disposal) seems so awful, but this was life for most of Rome.
			I&apos;d hate to live with a dozen other people.
			I&apos;m happy to have a home free of other people, a sanctuary to come back to when the day is done.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			The water-gathering property of the compluvium was pretty obvious, but I hadn&apos;t even considered it as a source of light.
			Letting sunlight in this way instead of burning candles would&apos;ve saved a lot of money, money that many didn&apos;t have.
		</p>
		<p>
			If I understand correctly, the filtration system you describe is not unlike the filtration systems used in modern water-treatment facilities.
			It&apos;s ancient technology, but there&apos;s not much to improve upon.
			The Romans might have been some of the first to filter water this way.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<p>
		Lastly, I did my grading for the week and took the ungraded quiz.
	</p>
</section>
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